Cutlery-scourer.



M. 0. CLARK. OUTLERY SUOURER. AAPPLIUTION FILED JUN'B 6, 1908.

Patented May 11.1909..

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MARY CAMPION CLARK, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.`

v CU'ILERY-SCOURER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1909.

Application area :rune e, 190s. serial No. 437,091.

To all whom 'it may concern Y Be it known that l, MARY CAMPION CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Cutlery-Scourers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cutlery scourers and its object is to provide a device of simple and cheap construction for enabling cutlery to be effectively cleaned and scoured, to provide in such articles means whereby the scouring material may be permanently retained in the device, and its escape prevented during the polishing operation and whereby during such operation a uniform and effective pol'- ishing pressure may be obtained on the a-rticle of cutlery, merely by the pressure exerted by the hand of the person using the device.

To these ends my invention is embodied in preferable form in the device hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, l

ln these drawings, Figure l is a perspective view illustrating my invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the flexible material and showing such flexible material secured to one of the scourinO members; Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the ine xof Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an end view of the device showing the mouth of the scourer in open position, and Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, but showing the device in closed position Referring to the drawings, the invention is embodied` in a box-like scouring device comprising two rubbing members 1 and 2, connected at sides and rear end by fabric, such as cloth or any suitable material and constituting not only a flexible connection between the two members but also an effective closure at the edges of the device. This flexible connecting and closing fabric at the sides is designated by 3. It is ofthe same width throughout, so that the rubbing members may be separated in parallelism. The rubbing members consist, preferably, of

boards or blocks of wood, and they` each have Aan interior lining 4 of cloth, felt or other suitable polishing material. This polishing facing 4 may be either separate from or integral with the connecting and closing fabric 3, secured at the sides and rear end of the two rubbing members. The flexible material both for the rubbing surfaces and the closing Walls .may be secured to the blocks in any suitable manner. At one end the device is left open providing a mouth 5 which permits the insertion of the knife or other article to be scoured. rlhelining or facing 4 extends out over the li s 'of this mouth and is suitably secured t ereto.

To scour an articlel of cutlery, a cleaning material such as pumice, sand stone or emery, is shaken into the interior of the device. The article to be cleaned and scoured is inserted into the mouth, the blocks are ressed together by the hand of the user,

earing on the upper block 1, the other block serving as a flat base for the device, and the article is drawn back and forth between the two bearing surfaces covered with the felt or other polishing material. The bearing surfaces having previously received the scouring material, they will eifectually clean and polish the article. The portions 3 of the flexible material being of an equal width around the three closed sides of the device will allow the pressure to be exerted evenly over the entire surface of the article to be scoured, whereby not only may the article be pressed with sufficient force to obtain the necessary frictional contact of the rubbing members against the article of cutlery, but at the same time, an excessive pressure may be avoided.

Another great advantage of the device is that being closed on three sides it prevents the cleaning material from escaping during the scouring operation. A small amount of cleaning material can thus be used for an indefinite period and the necessity of continually feeding such material to the device is obviated. The side and end fabric thus forming closing walls, serve to constitute the device aV pouch or receptacle which may be hung up and in which the scouring material `is permanently held.

Having thus described my invention, what is hung;` up by one end, substantially as de- I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patl scribed. 1:7 ent is 2- ln testimony whereof l zillix my signature,

A scouring device having two opposite in presence oi' two witnesses. 5 rubbing members, a flexible fabric conneot- MARY AMPION CLARK.

ing the members and closing` the sides and Witnesses: one end of the device whereby the scouring` HERBERT P. SHELDON, material is retained therein when the device RUFUS L. CLARK. 

